A typical example of another recent so-called "UFO sighting" that
concluded with a prosaic explanation:

(the sighting took place in New South Wales in Australia last week
which caused lots of commotion initially but it turned out to be a
misidentification, which is typical of most so-called "UFO
sightings"):


Earthly Answer To UFO Mystery 


City spooked by object in sky -- discovered to be man's kite 



There was video of it. 

Its photo made the front page of the local paper. 

And police did not have a good explanation for the mysterious,
unidentified flying object which spooked residents for five hours in
New South Wales, Australia, last weekend.

"A black triangular object that made a number of movements and then
speared off out of sight behind the trees," is how authorities
described the item, according to the Dubbo Daily Liberal.

"I've never seen anything like it," Suzanne Fuller told the paper,
thinking the object to be 40 to 50 miles away. "It was hovering there
for five hours, and it was completely silent."

"It looked like a bird, but much larger, the size of a car, with a
flat top and a deeper shape at the bottom," she continued. "Once the
sun set, there was a light like from a lighthouse flashing on and off,
every
couple of seconds." 

"The police were here, and they said they had never seen anything like
it before. Every now and then, it would move to the left again, and
then back to the same spot again."

Authorities viewed her videotape, and made an official report to Air
Services Australia, a federal airways monitoring bureau.

But it turns out the event was much ado about nothing, as the UFO
turned out to be a kite flown by local hobbyists.

Kite flown by Paul and Aidan Cremin set town on edge (courtesy: Dubbo
Daily Liberal)

"My neighbour came over laughing with the newspaper," said Paul
Cremin, a local resident who flies kites with his 13-year-old son,
Aidan.

"We couldn't stop laughing when we read the story," he said. "I called
the police because I didn't want anyone to worry, and the policewoman
couldn't stop laughing either."

Cremin says he and his son were flying a kite for some five hours in
the part of the sky mentioned by Fuller.

As far as the lights going on and off, he said, "We use a [flashlight]
to try and spot the kite in the sky once it gets dark."

"Reading that they saw it move a bit to the left, and then back again,
I knew it was the kite. It does exactly that," he said, shaking his
head.

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